So I've got a few ideas lingering around but I'm having trouble deciding what to focus on, so I've decided to solicit opinions.
First up, rewrites and continuations of fics that I have already started.
1. Exploring Hell - This is a 40K SI fic with the SI as a really favored Rogue Trader. Book 1 is almost entirely complete but it needs a rewrite and polish. It's on the list because I want to actually complete a fic and it's almost entirely done (at least the first book). Beyond that though I'm lacking in 40K interest at the moment.
2. Gems of Infinite Potential - This is an MCU SI fic. It could also do with a rewrite/polish and it would fit better here on TS than on SB. My MCU interest is pretty low at the moment though.
Now onto new ideas:
1. Harry Potter SI as the younger brother (Marius) of Nymphadora Tonks (reborn October 31st 1976). Instead of RoB/a portal/ death, he just goes to sleep one night next to his heavily pregnant wife and wakes up as the newly born son of Andromeda & Ted Tonks. Marius vows to do whatever is necessary to get back to his wife he will be there when his first son is born; morality and cost be damned. While I have the story outlined, I'm honestly interested in writing this more to explore various ideas about magic and worldbuilding than because I have a story that I am dying to tell. This would also be book 1 of a multiverse exploration fic (as getting back home isn't exactly fast, easy, or without its perils and detours). The idea that I am currently most interested in.
2. Harry Potter SI as Sirius Black II , with slight age adjustments to make him the same year as Dumbledore. Dumbledore and Sirius end up friends/rivals in Hogwarts as while they are in different Houses and from very different backgrounds (Gryffindor vs. Slytherin, half blood son of a muggleborn and a middle class pureblood who was tossed in Azkaban vs. pureblood heir to a House that has been at societies peak for eons and whose father is the current Headmaster of Hogwarts) they are also the only students who can keep up with one another. Albus is a natural prodigy with magic on a scale almost without compare while Sirius is an SI with an adult mind (and maturity) who also enjoys foreknowledge. They both meet Gellert the summer after they graduated from Hogwarts, although canon changes as Ariana doesn't end up dead and the "rule the muggle" plans are substantially altered.
3. Mass Effect SI in LogicalPremise's variant of ME. SI is reborn as an Asari, the heiress of one of the Thirty a bit over 1200 years before ME canon starts (basically a contemporary of Benezia. She realizes quite fast that this is not canon ME and so is (to a great extent) shooting blind when it comes to foreknowledge/OoC knowledge. Still, she expects that the Reapers are going to show up within her lifetime and so preparing for them would be a very good idea. The SI's experience as a human gives her a psyche that is significantly at odds with the Asari norm (which does cause some conflicts but also has its benefits). This fic would likely be fairly time skip heavy
4. Arrow fic. Talia visits Lian Yu instead of Nyssa (searching for Yao Fei) and rescues Sara at the end of the Amazo arc. When Oliver shows up in Russia, he and Sara reconnect. Sara solves some of the stupid in Olivers plans for Starling, and so The Hood appears in Starling a few months before Oliver and Sara are "rescued" from Lian Yu. Lots of interpersonal conflict as Oliver & Sara are a couple and refuse to be seperated from one another (for both emotional and practical reasons).
5. Arrow fic. In Dead to Rights Felicity doesn't get magical, perfect plot timing, hacking powers and doesn't manage to break the encryption on the assassins cellphone in time for Oliver to intercept Deadshots hit on Malcom. Malcolm dies in Tommy's arms but not before Tommy finds out about the secret room and thinks his dad was The Hood (along with finding a lot of evidence for the Undertaking). He goes to Oliver and the two come clean to one another (about Oliver being the Hood and about Malcolm wanting to wipe out a good chunk of the city). The two decide to honor their fathers wishes (if not their methods) and commit to cleaning up the city. Problem is that I'm not sure where to really take this, it would probably work better as a "what if" one shot.
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So thoughts and suggestions?
First up, rewrites and continuations of fics that I have already started.
1. Exploring Hell - This is a 40K SI fic with the SI as a really favored Rogue Trader. Book 1 is almost entirely complete but it needs a rewrite and polish. It's on the list because I want to actually complete a fic and it's almost entirely done (at least the first book). Beyond that though I'm lacking in 40K interest at the moment.
2. Gems of Infinite Potential - This is an MCU SI fic. It could also do with a rewrite/polish and it would fit better here on TS than on SB. My MCU interest is pretty low at the moment though.
Now onto new ideas:
1. Harry Potter SI as the younger brother (Marius) of Nymphadora Tonks (reborn October 31st 1976). Instead of RoB/a portal/ death, he just goes to sleep one night next to his heavily pregnant wife and wakes up as the newly born son of Andromeda & Ted Tonks. Marius vows to do whatever is necessary to get back to his wife he will be there when his first son is born; morality and cost be damned. While I have the story outlined, I'm honestly interested in writing this more to explore various ideas about magic and worldbuilding than because I have a story that I am dying to tell. This would also be book 1 of a multiverse exploration fic (as getting back home isn't exactly fast, easy, or without its perils and detours). The idea that I am currently most interested in.
2. Harry Potter SI as Sirius Black II , with slight age adjustments to make him the same year as Dumbledore. Dumbledore and Sirius end up friends/rivals in Hogwarts as while they are in different Houses and from very different backgrounds (Gryffindor vs. Slytherin, half blood son of a muggleborn and a middle class pureblood who was tossed in Azkaban vs. pureblood heir to a House that has been at societies peak for eons and whose father is the current Headmaster of Hogwarts) they are also the only students who can keep up with one another. Albus is a natural prodigy with magic on a scale almost without compare while Sirius is an SI with an adult mind (and maturity) who also enjoys foreknowledge. They both meet Gellert the summer after they graduated from Hogwarts, although canon changes as Ariana doesn't end up dead and the "rule the muggle" plans are substantially altered.
3. Mass Effect SI in LogicalPremise's variant of ME. SI is reborn as an Asari, the heiress of one of the Thirty a bit over 1200 years before ME canon starts (basically a contemporary of Benezia. She realizes quite fast that this is not canon ME and so is (to a great extent) shooting blind when it comes to foreknowledge/OoC knowledge. Still, she expects that the Reapers are going to show up within her lifetime and so preparing for them would be a very good idea. The SI's experience as a human gives her a psyche that is significantly at odds with the Asari norm (which does cause some conflicts but also has its benefits). This fic would likely be fairly time skip heavy
4. Arrow fic. Talia visits Lian Yu instead of Nyssa (searching for Yao Fei) and rescues Sara at the end of the Amazo arc. When Oliver shows up in Russia, he and Sara reconnect. Sara solves some of the stupid in Olivers plans for Starling, and so The Hood appears in Starling a few months before Oliver and Sara are "rescued" from Lian Yu. Lots of interpersonal conflict as Oliver & Sara are a couple and refuse to be seperated from one another (for both emotional and practical reasons).
5. Arrow fic. In Dead to Rights Felicity doesn't get magical, perfect plot timing, hacking powers and doesn't manage to break the encryption on the assassins cellphone in time for Oliver to intercept Deadshots hit on Malcom. Malcolm dies in Tommy's arms but not before Tommy finds out about the secret room and thinks his dad was The Hood (along with finding a lot of evidence for the Undertaking). He goes to Oliver and the two come clean to one another (about Oliver being the Hood and about Malcolm wanting to wipe out a good chunk of the city). The two decide to honor their fathers wishes (if not their methods) and commit to cleaning up the city. Problem is that I'm not sure where to really take this, it would probably work better as a "what if" one shot.
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So thoughts and suggestions?